Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:25:36 -0500 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Brian" <bri@sonicboom.org>, <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "freebsd questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail upgrade Message-ID: <002401c13d96$16ddade0$11fd2fd8@westbend.net> References: <00a001c13d86$6e1a1680$3324200a@sonicboom.org>
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From: "Brian" <bri@sonicboom.org> > I have FreeBSD 4.3 release, which came with Sendmail 8.11.3. I decided to > upgrade to 8.11.6, which was in the ports tree. Well it appears that the > previous version was in /usr/sbin, and was a link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. > The new version is in /usr/local/sbin. I changed the perms from 555 to 444 > on the old one, but have an issue. Looking at the rc.conf files, there is > no arg for sendmail location, only whether you want it and the flags to pass > to it. /etc/rc seems to contain a complete path, but the notes in there say > I probably shouldn't edit it, and if I need to, I should let somebody know. As the name suggests, mailwrapper is a program that reads the mailer.conf file so that alternative mail servers (postfix, qmail, exim, or sendmail) can be installed on FreeBSD. FreeBSD's real sendmail program is actually located at /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail. You need to change the perms back to 555. Read the man page on mailwrapper, as it explains its purpose and why you had to change only mailer.conf > That is what I am doing. It would be nice for more info to be given at the > end of the install. I also edited /etc/mail/mailer.conf per the notes at > the end. This is all you needed to change to have FreeBSD use the sendmail port (8.11.6) , instead of the base systems sendmail (8.11.3). Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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